[pure-silver] Re: Temp Control Valve Issue

From: mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:33:49 -0700

Well something to think about and let others decide where either the plumbing or photographic knowledge falls short.

First the lines for hot and cold are what size lines. For most its either 1/2 pipe, but figure out what size it is.

Instead of a faucet, run both lines to a mixer pipe, but make sure that pipe is at least 1 size larger than the line that feeds it, and ideally large enough that the interior diameter is twice the size of the line that feeds it. Re enforced tubing should work so it could be flexible. You need this extra space for the flow of water to avoid the back pressure to keep the hot water on. Run the hot just enough to keep the heater on, and then mix with the amount of cold. Id probably go ahead and try to plumb a thermometer in the mixed line too, but you could just measure the temp holding it at the end of the line. What maybe a problem is how much control over the amount of flow of water at a given temp you are going to have at any given time. You should be able to x temp water, but not sure how much control of the flow of x temp water you are going to have. Yet if flow has to be high enough it won't work in a shower, I can't see any way it would work with any automated system.

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Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Temp Control Valve Issue
From: John Stockdale <j.sto@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, January 13, 2010 2:58 pm
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Adrienne Moumin wrote:
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My circa-1996 Delta TCM sink's valve seems useless in our sub-freezing cinder-block darkroom, esp. now that we have gotten a tankless hot water heater (a piece of folly I do NOT recommend to anyone!)
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I'm sorry I can't help with this, but I also cursed the unavoidable arrival of our tankless gas hot water system.

Everyone in the family loves it except me, because it has a minimum flow which is more than I need to manually mix a little hot with cold to get 75degF.

I have been known to run another hot tap to waste in order to get my tap to deliver a low flow of uninterrupted hot. (I don't do this a lot for obvious reasons).

John Stockdale
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[pure-silver] Re: Temp Control Valve Issue

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